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“In general, teaching writing makes me a far better reader because there's so many ways to write a good sentence or a good story, and as a teacher I'm obliged to consider them all, rather than staying in the safety of my own tendencies.”

Way Writing Stories My Own Teacher Teaching Reader Safety Sentences Tendencies Staying Obliged Good Story Teaching Writing

Author:Leni Zumas

“Giving the reader the space to move around and be active, and encourage their active response is important to me. That will connect the reader more to the text.”

Giving Important Moving Space Reader Response Active

Author:Leni Zumas

“There's relief in white space for the reader.”

Space White Reader Relief White Space

Author:Leni Zumas

“I don't read the "letters" section of Time magazine. I think it's just my habit as a reader. I don't read comments on stories, in general.”

Thinking Stories Reader Habit Letters Magazines Comment Sections Time Magazine

Author:Joel Stein

“As a publisher what you are trying to build is a long life for a book, to help it find its readers in many different ways, whether or not it made this list or got that review, etc. I'm sure some of that thinking has been useful to me as a writer as well.”

Thinking Way Trying Wells Long Has Beens Made Book Different Helping Reader Lists Different Ways Etc Reviews Publishers Long Life

Author:Danielle Dutton

“We've never had a giant circulation. And we've always been a magazine for writers and for sophisticated readers. We've never had to run stories that would appeal to a million people. And what you end up with is a kind of tradition that might have staying power - the cockroach after armageddon.”

People Kind Ends Stories Might Running Millions Reader Tradition Magazines Appeals Giants Staying Sophisticated Circulation Armageddon Cockroaches Staying Power

Author:Lorin Stein

“I tend to think that the onus is on the writer to engage the reader, that the reader should not be expected to need the writer, that the writer has to prove it. All that stuff might add up to a kind of fun in the work. I like things that are about interesting subjects, which sounds self-evident.”

Thinking Needs Should Kind Self Might Fun Stuff Sound Interesting Subjects Reader Prove Add Expected Evident Prove It

Author:Lorin Stein

“Names don't matter, CVs don't matter, previous publications don't matter at all, because, in a certain way, the ideal is for someone to come completely out of left field. And still, of course, it is hard to say no to a writer who matters a lot to you and who you know matters to your readers.”

Knows Way Stills Matter Hard Certain Courses Names Left Fields Reader Ideals Publication Who You Know Left Field

Author:Lorin Stein

“Note to our readers - Donald Trump is a serial liar, rampant xenophobe, racist, misogynist, birther and bully who was repeatedly pledged to ban all Muslims - 1.6 million members of an entire religion - from entering the U.S.”

Millions Trump Reader Members Notes Racist Liars Entering Bully Bans Serials

Author:Ryan Grim

“Let's have some boilerplate language that accurately describes the candidate that we're talking about. If readers are unfamiliar, here are the descriptions of his behavior and here are the links to that behavior that is described.”

Ifs Language Talking Reader Behavior Candidates Description Links Unfamiliar

Author:Ryan Grim

“By changing the way I experienced things, even just involving different details than in reality, I often felt I was betraying the past and playing an unfair game with the reader where he (of course) would ask himself "Did this really happen?"”

Way Different Reality Happens Past Courses Asks Games Felt Reader Details Betray Unfair Involving Fair Game

Author:Sasa Stanisic

“As my editor had no desire to frighten readers with the Romanian pages, he had them translated and published the whole thing in French in 1984. It was only years later, in Romania, that I was able to publish the book as I wrote it.”

Years Book Whole Able Desire Reader Pages Editors Publish Romania

Author:Dumitru Tepeneag

“The narrative image has more dimensions than the painted image - literature is more complex than painting. Initially, this complexity represents a disadvantage, because the reader has to concentrate much more than when they're looking at a canvas. It gives the author, on the other hand, the opportunity to feel like a creator: they can offer their readers a world in which there's room for everyone, as every reader has their own reading and vision.”

World Giving Feels Hands Reading Literature Opportunity Rooms Vision Painting Reader Offers Complexes Creator Narrative Complexity Dimensions Canvas Disadvantages

Author:Dumitru Tepeneag

“In Necessary Marriage, I tried to repeat entire phrases without the reader noticing. My work doesn't have the rigor of music, but I hope it alludes to it.”

Reader Phrases Repeats Noticing Rigor

Author:Dumitru Tepeneag

“The reader's impression is one of a dream - the only thing that's left upon waking is the memory of a melody at the end of a concert.”

Ends Dream Left Memories Reader Impression Melody Concerts Waking

Author:Dumitru Tepeneag

“There is no one 'best set-up', there are many - you can get to mate in endless ways. And - don't forget! - in chess, like in literature, "the other" (the reader, the adversary, the partner, etc.) has to be a collaborator, has to work with you to get to the final goal. We depend on them! But they also depend on us.”

Way Literature Goal Forget Depends Reader Finals Partners Chess Endless Etc Mates Adversaries Collaborators

Author:Dumitru Tepeneag

“I read a lot; I tried to understand the mechanisms that made the books I liked successful, and I went that route. So, as for readers - when I think about them I like to think they read the same books I do.”

Thinking Made Book Successful Reader Mechanism Routes

Author:Kevin Keck

“Most writers are lazy intellectuals, and it's a goddamn shame because a writer with an audience has a moral responsibility to make readers think about the world in a different way than what they're used to. Why else would you pick up a book if not to inhabit another realm of existence for a while?”

Ifs Thinking World Way Book Different Used Existence Responsibility Moral Audience Reader Picks Shame Different Ways Realms Lazy Moral Responsibility

Author:Kevin Keck

“Not every story lends itself tonally to humor, so you have to navigate that territory properly. You can put a humorous spin on anything, really, if you know what you're doing, but it's not always desirable to have your reader laughing on every page.”

Ifs Knows Stories Laughing Reader Pages Humorous Territory Desirable Navigate

Author:Kevin Keck

“I want the flashbacks to feel that once you're there they have their own unity, their own kind of atmospheric sensibility; I want the reader to be transported. The novel is a big, complicated, unknowable thing before it's written.”

Want Feels Kind Bigs Novel Written Reader Unity Complicated Sensibility Flashback

Author:Chang-Rae Lee

“I take pleasure as a reader in books that tease with a kind of urgency of the real, even if it's only a manufactured effect.”

Ifs Kind Book Real Pleasure Effects Reader Urgency Tease

Author:Garth Greenwell

“I'm quite a good reader of people; I like to meet people, and I can tell if they're lying or not, and I've certainly had interviews with people in this radio show I've done that swear they've seen things or have had bizarre experiences with creatures, and so I think they're telling the truth.”

People Ifs Thinking I Can Done Shows Lying Reader Creatures Radio Interviews Telling The Truth Swear Bizarre

Author:Rhys Darby

“Sometimes there's kind of an "ick" factor around talking about anything about gay sexuality, for certain readers.”

Kind Sometimes Certain Talking Reader Gay Sexuality Factors

Author:Kirby Dick

“My main reader was my wife Sheila, and I haven't written a lot since she died.”

Wife Written Havens Reader Died My Wife Sheila

Author:Dan Chaon

“I'm quite a good reader of people; I like to meet people, and I can tell if they're lying or not.”

People Ifs I Can Lying Reader

Author:Rhys Darby

“I hope readers will consider, especially in this age of the World Wide Web, that as miraculous as it is, we still need to be in the same room with all five senses if we are to empathize with each other.”

Ifs World Needs Stills Age Rooms Five Reader Wide Senses Miraculous Five Senses World Wide Web

Author:Gloria Steinem

“Publishing companies and a great many authors have missed the opportunity to capitalize on the very real relationships they create with their readers.”

Real Opportunity Company Reader Great Men Publishing Real Relationship

Author:Vantile Whitfield

“Fanzines are very important for sharing stuff that you're in to, with the readers and listeners. We met through the love of discovering music and it makes sense, to want to share that music with other people.”

People Want Important Stuff Share Reader Mets Make Sense Discovering Listeners

Author:Faris Badwan

“Well, the fact is, we can never know what people do in the privacy of their own rooms. The door is closed. The blinds are drawn. We don't know. I leave it up to the reader. But there's no doubt in my mind that they loved each other, and this was an ardent, loving relationship between two adult women.”

People Knows Mind Wells Two Facts Rooms Doubt Doors Reader Adults No Doubt Privacy Ardent Loving Relationships

Author:Blanche Wiesen Cook

“I have never had a point in my life to make. I'm just trying to entertain the reader.”

Trying Reader

Author:Dave Barry

“With a novel, you have to have a story. It's much more important to have it matter to the reader what happens to people, and it has to make sense and end in a way that is satisfying. So I spend a lot more time thinking about that. Then the writing itself usually is easier for me, because I know where it's going.”

People Thinking Knows Way Writing Important Ends Matter Stories Happens Novel Reader Easier Make Sense More Time Satisfying

Author:Dave Barry

“If I can be more efficient, I'm actually being more respectful to the reader, which then implies a greater intimacy with the reader.”

Ifs I Can Greater Reader Intimacy Efficient Respectful

Author:George Saunders

“Also, and this may sound naïve, but since my early days in journalism, I've felt that getting as close as possible to truth, revealing the reality of a situation in detail, has its own persuasive power. This allows readers to look at the facts and the perspectives presented and draw informed conclusions.”

Looks May Facts Reality Felt Sound Situation Perspective Reader Draws Details Conclusion Journalism Revealing Persuasive

Author:Sheri Fink

“One of the things that's amazing about reading the private writing of these folks is that they enthusiastically describe things which we have now seen, and which are widely regarded as unappealing. They'll write, "It's going to be beautiful, we're going to have a town of 1,000 stone buildings that are all identical." And we as modern readers think, we've seen that; that's bad Soviet architecture or a public housing project. Nobody fantasizes about living there.”

Thinking Writing Beautiful Reading Modern Building Reader Projects Stones Towns Folks Architecture Soviet Housing Identical Public Housing

Author:Christine Jennings

“I think that in a lot of readers' minds the essay is a lot more utilitarian than it is art.”

Thinking Mind Art Reader Essays Utilitarian

Author:John D'Agata

“When I'm teaching, I'm not really doing my job if the student who's always comfortable doing wacko stuff all over the page keeps getting gold stars from me for doing wacko stuff all over the page. A riskier assignment for that student, who might be used to hiding behind a lot of formal armor, would be to try to do something straightforward, traditionally, in which they are much more directly laid bare for the reader.”

Ifs Trying Might Would Be Jobs Used Stars Stuff Behinds Teaching Students Reader Comfortable Pages Gold Hiding Formal Straightforward Armor Assignments

Author:John D'Agata

“I believe young children in particular enjoy witnessing the survival of youthful protagonists against terrible odds. I think it's gratifying to the reader when you give young characters that kind of agency.”

Thinking Giving Believe Kind Children Character Young I Believe Enjoy Particular Reader Terrible Survival Agency Odds Young Children Protagonists

Author:Robert Paul Weston

“If some readers take away the idea that animals deserve better treatment in general, then I certainly won't argue.”

Ifs Ideas Animal Reader Deserve Arguing Treatment Deserve Better

Author:Robert Paul Weston

“Maybe there's a sense that technology isn't necessarily the answer to a lot of our problems. Fantasy offers readers a less radically alienated world - a world where desires and feelings that normally are trapped inside your mind are made real in the form of magic.”

World Mind Made Real Feelings Problem Form Desire Answers Technology Fantasy Magic Reader Offers Trapped

Author:Lev Grossman

“The editor needs to put his own life on hold for the better of the magazine, the crew, and the readers. And to have a bigger vision of the magazine's style and an understanding that every [issue] should be well-balanced and hopefully surprising. To have a pink wall with a door of perception where he can bang his head on.”

Needs Should Wells Understanding Vision Issues Doors Style Wall Reader Perception Bigger Magazines Hopefully Editors Surprising Balanced Crew Bangs Doors Of Perception

Author:Toni Jerrman

“But, inevitably, as he [Kierkegaard] approaches what we might call his Christocentric climax many readers drop off. Many scholars just leave that part of his authorship alone.”

Might Reader Approach Scholar Authorship Climax

Author:George Pattison

“Where names of people or places would mean little to a contemporary reader, I figured "translation errors" could create interesting new meanings.”

People Mean Littles Names Interesting Reader Errors Contemporary Translations

Author:Hal Duncan

“You sing about the things you're influenced by. So we've been big into sci-fi since we were kids, things like Star Trek etc. Then came movies like Terminator and Dune. Burton is also a really big reader and loves sci-fi novels which helps him write. It's also really cool he does that because it's through the perspective of how we see things going or possibly going.”

Writing Doe Helping Bigs Kids Stars Novel Perspective Reader And Love Etc Sci Fi Really Cool

Author:Dino Cazares

“I grew up reading crime fiction mysteries, true crime - a lot of true crime - and it is traditionally a male dominated field from the outside, but from the inside what we know, those of us who read it, is that women buy the most crime fiction, they are by far the biggest readers of true crime, and there's a voracious appetite among women for these stories, and I know I feel it - since I was quite small I wanted to go to those dark places.”

Knows Feels Stories Wanted Reading Dark Fiction Mystery Crime Fields Grew Reader Grew Up Males Appetite Crime Fiction Dark Places

Author:Megan Abbott

“I've been a faithful reader of the great classical documents of economics, or tried to be. The first book in the field that I ever read was Principles of Economics by Alfred Marshall. I suppose subsequently I would have to pick out Keynes, Adam Smith, Marx.”

Firsts Book Principles Fields Reader Picks Economics Faithful Adam Documents Keynes

Author:John Kenneth Galbraith

“I beg my reader to consider the "evidence" I provide for my case and perhaps feel persuaded as a result. Beyond that I make no claim.”

Feels Results Cases Reader Evidence Claims

Author:Paul Fry

“My own literary interest is more about excavating the past, or sensing the past inside the present. This requires all kinds of exclusions and sleights of hand. There's an admittedly antiquarian flavor to it, even though there's enough of the present included to lull the reader.”

Kind Enough Hands Past Interest My Own Reader All Kinds Flavor Exclusion Lulls Sensing Sleight Of Hand

Author:Teju Cole

“Echo is very important to me. I love the repetition of motifs, or the slight alteration of what's been said before. This is part of how one creates a mood, a psychological caul, in fact, around the reader.”

Said Important Facts Reader Mood Psychological Echoes Repetition Alterations Motifs

Author:Teju Cole

“Joyce's writing in Dubliners contains some of the most unshowily beautiful sentences in the English language. I learned from him that if you write a good, clean line of English, you can get under a reader's skin. The reader won't even know why, but there you are. Didion, Berger, the many others I mentioned above, and many, many poets I haven't mentioned. Writers of this calibre are the moving targets the rest of us are always chasing.”

Ifs Knows Writing Beautiful Moving Language Lines Havens Poet Reader Skins Clean Sentences Target Chasing English Language Joyce

Author:Teju Cole

“I intend Deaths in Venice to contribute both to literary criticism and to philosophy. But it's not "strict philosophy" in the sense of arguing for specific theses. As I remark, there's a style of philosophy - present in writers from Plato to Rawls - that invites readers to consider a certain class of phenomena in a new way. In the book, I associate this, in particular, with my good friend, the eminent philosopher of science, Nancy Cartwright, who practices it extremely skilfully.”

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